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How Delicious and iPad can help save ink, paper, and time!

  
  
  
  
  

As I was getting ready for our lunch & learn webinar this week, I wanted to review a couple of related articles, and my first instinct was to print them so I can take a look at them while on the go (in between meetings or at a café before or after lunch).  However instead of printing, Delicious and the iPad came to the rescue, and helped save ink, paper, and time!

Having installed the Delicious toolbar on my browser (see www.delicious.com), bookmarking these articles in Delicious is one click away. Furthermore, Delicious allows me to tag the articles with relevant keywords and add a custom note.

Delicious bookmarking

Delicious also allows me to make a bookmark private or alternatively keep it public and therefore share it with others:

Delicious bookmarking

With just a few clicks the article is now available from anywhere, using any computer or device, like a smartphone when in motion or when space is tight, and the iPad while sitting at the Café and sipping my favorite decaf vanilla soy latte.

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Comments

Pierre, there are two related but distinctly different approaches to similar problems.  
 
The first is to use something like ReadItLater or Instapaper to collect web clips or Google Reader starred articles for offline or online access to "saved" reading. 
 
Another solution that I am very happy with in its earliest incarnation is Firefox Home, which is an iPhone app that can sync with my Firefox browser to give me separate access to my tabs. For those who use a multitude of tabs as the technique for saving things to read later, this provides a reasonable workaround to actually read the content on those tabs from another device. 
 
As always, the real risk that people face is having three systems for doing almost the same thing. I believe that it's less important which of these methods you choose than trying really hard to choose just *one* to track everything. It's easy to check one place, one inbox, for things to read.
Posted @ Tuesday, September 07, 2010 3:48 PM by Rick Colosimo
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